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Hroshyk - Mikhail Chartoryisky "Columns" Countermark Group V
| Issuer | Principality of Kyiv (Rus Principalities) |
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| Year | 1450-1460 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1450-1460) ND (1450-1460) ND (1450-1460) ND (1450-1460) ND (1450-1460) ND (1450-1460) |
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Mikhail Chartoryisky governed Kyiv as a Lithuanian-appointed prince during the mid-fifteenth century, a period when the Grand Duchy of Lithuania exercised loose but assertive control over the old Rus principalities. The "Columns" countermark — the Gediminid dynastic symbol — stamped onto circulating hroshyky was less a monetary reform than a political assertion: local coinage brought under visible dynastic authority without the expense of a new issue.
Group V countermarks are distinguished by die characteristics documented in the Hankevych-Petrov corpus, placing this piece within a small cluster attributed specifically to Chartoryisky's administration rather than his predecessors.